Word: raiser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tormented, he had long been recognized as a star of the new quantum physics, a man with an acute and elegant mind. During his years as a physics professor at Berkeley and Caltech, he had also signed just about every petition for farmworkers' rights and attended every fund raiser for the Spanish Republic. Oppenheimer always denied that he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. But he never sought to conceal that he had spent much of his professional life surrounded by party members, including his younger brother Frank. Even his wife had been a member before their...
Members of Kremer’s section—a group of about 90 students in his class at HBS—and their section chair, Senior Associate Dean Janice H. Hammond, have organized several events to achieve their goals. They arranged a Valentine’s Day fund-raiser in February and hosted an online auction, which ended last week...
...Hope as told to Dwayne Netland Doubleday; 230 pages; $17.95 Since he first visited an indoor driving range in Manhattan back in the '30s, the standup octogenarian has played on nearly 2,000 golf courses around the world. With an amalgam of Friars roast hostilities and fund-raiser geniality, Bob Hope says thanks for the memories to the pros and putters who have helped the game. Along the fairway he observes the links style of most Presidents since Eisenhower. When Ike met Hope in wartime Algiers, the general's first words were "How's your golf?" The athletic J.F.K...
There has been no evidence that Street, 61, himself is corrupt, but federal prosecutors say the mayor's close friend and fund raiser, Ron White, partially took control of city contracting and turned the process into a naked shakedown for donations to Street's 2003 re-election campaign. White died before going to trial, but former city treasurer Cory Kemp, a member of Street's administration, and four other defendants await a jury's verdict. The scandals have turned Street into a lame duck a year early. "The city is in a kind of suspended animation as long...
...world's most famous aviator, the hillbilly Lindy who shot down 13 German aircraft in World War II (five in one day) and went on to become the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound and live. His legendary career as a test pilot and hell raiser was sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive...